"Page Hints and Led Zeppelin world Tour

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Led Zeppelin are ready for a world tour, but lead guitarist Jimmy Page says it will not be until later this year at the earliest.

The British hard rock legends last month put on a two-hour concert at London's 02 Arena for 20,000 lucky fans and speculation has swirled of a fully-fledged world tour ever since.

Page, visiting Tokyo to promote a greatest hits album, acknowledged that the three surviving members of the iconic 1970s band had laid the groundwork for a world tour.

"The amount of work that we put into the 02," Page told reporters, was "what you put into a world tour."

But he refused to be pinned to any definite plans, saying that any world tour would depend on frontman Robert Plant's schedule.

Plant "has a parallel project and he's really busy with that, certainly until September," Page said.

The band played some of their classics - from "Stairway to Heaven" to "Whole Lotta Love" - at their December 10 concert in London.

The gig came 27 years after the band split up following the death of drummer John .

The London concert was a tribute to Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, who signed the band four decades ago and died in 2006.

Most fans had assumed they would never take the stage again.

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